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First saga of Punta del Este was written by the Exeter'?, Stoker Charlie Holmes...
...worldly old Otto Kahn was guiding K-L to new heights in railroad financing and piloting the fortunes of opera stars in his spare time. Piggy Warburg announced his partnership in an official release tracing his career as a "worker in every branch of the Baltimore & Ohio," as stoker in Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co. power plant, vice president in the Bank of Manhattan Co., and philanthropist - failed to explain his interest in brokerage...
...eight years the 25,000-ton French liner Lafayette shuttled travelers between the U. S. and France. In preparation for the summer tourist season, the Lafayette was last week getting an overhauling in the Havre drydock. One night a stoker, firing oil burners with a blow torch, accidentally set fire to some spilled mazut (fuel oil) in the stokehold...
...years one of the few things for which coalmen could be thankful. In 1923, two years before the big anthracite strike that set the industry staggering, two Portland contractors, Thomas Harry Banfield and Cyrus Jury Parker, took over a small local iron works and with it a clumsy automatic stoker which they improved and called Iron Fireman...
This does not mean that Mr. Banfield has lost faith in his Iron Fireman. Sales of automatic stokers are on the rise. In 1933 one automatic stoker was sold for every six oil burners; last year the proportion was one to 2.2. But he has cogent reasons for surprising his dealers: 1) About a third of Iron Fireman dealers sell oil burners as well as stokers, and he would like them to have a complete line of Iron Fireman equipment; 2) The rest of his dealers want a crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still...